Chester Noyes Greenough

Chester Noyes Greenough (June 29, 1874 – February 27, 1938) was a Professor of English and Dean at Harvard University.

Biography Chester Noyes Greenough was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, U.S., on June 29, 1874. He graduated from Harvard College in 1898, received his master's degree in 1899 and his doctorate in 1904, both from Harvard University. He taught at Harvard briefly before becoming head of the English Department at the University of Illinois in 1907. He returned to Harvard as Assistant Professor of English in 1910 and became Professor of English in 1915.

He held the post of Dean from 1921 to 1927.

He married twice. His first wife, Marietta McPherson, died in 1925. He married Ruth Hornblower Atkins, who survived him, in 1931. He died in Belmont, Massachusetts, on February 27, 1938.